Canon reviews

3.4

56% would recommend to a friend

(2,005 total reviews)
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Fujio Mitarai

71% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

Canon has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 2,005 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Canon employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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2K reviews
1.0
Jan 15, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The people who work for the company are generally decent and hardworking and trying their best for this good honest brand.

Cons

Complete lack of leadership. Paying lip service to the general workforce. In the end you are a simply a cost on a spreadsheet, unempowered and untrusted. Zero work life balance. There is absolutely no appreciation for increasingly excessive workloads (people are regularly working late into the evening or weekends and it becomes expected do do so). Every year there is either less people, more work, or both. No clarity of roles or responsibilities leads to confusion, lack of ownership and accountability. A lot of politics, infighting and bullying happens openly. Aggressive communication is not uncommon. Pressure is simply passed onto the employee to deal with from management who are desperately looking for a magic wand to address blatant lack of strategy or direction to steer the ship.

2.0
Mar 16, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- some excellent, friendly and clever colleagues in CEL and CENV - amazing, truly multi-national, global team allowing you to feel comfortable regardless of from where you came from - basic IT systems are reasonably well organised - good work/life balance if you are lucky with your management

Cons

- no vision and strategy, company is rapidly deteriorating and can't reinvent itself - very low morale due to the ongoing EMEA-wide employee redundancy programme - no funding for IT, cost cutting everywhere - no prospects for senior IT employees due to lack of projects and funds - no professional development, no learning of new things as nothing happens - complete disconnect between what leadership is saying and the reality - HR only interested in covering up for senior management

1.0
Feb 27, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

There is no reason to work here!

Cons

If you are not japanese forget about it. You will be bullied by managers. You will be given an endless list of tasks to complete and will be expected to work till the crack of dawn without getting paid. All that for nothing as when the evaluation time comes you will always be worse/less professional/motivated/passionate than your japanese colleague who will be praised for their remarkable performance. You will never understand how to progress or be given credit for your efforts. They will drain your energy and quickly replace you with someone new.

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